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“My plea to each of you is that we constantly take the position that every one of us can do better than we are doing. We are in a constant search for excellence. That search must be continuous and never ending. It must be consuming and unrelenting…. In this highly competitive world no one can [...]
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“The Church is the great teacher and builder of values. Its precepts are designed to lead men and women along the way of immortality and eternal life, to make their lives more complete, more rich and happy whle moving through this vale of tears, and in preparing them for the beauties and wonders of that [...]
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“We do not succeed, I believe, until the Spirit of the Lord reaches down into the heart of the people and touches them with that conviction that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, the Firstborn of the Father, the Only Begotten in the flesh, He who gave His life for each of us. [...]
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“I have seen miracles in my time, my brothers and sisters. The greatest miracle of all, I believe, is the transformation that comes into the life of a man or a woman who accepts the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and tries to live it in his or her life.” (Vacavill /Santa Rosa California Regional [...]
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If there be any who nurture in their hearts the poisonous brew of enmity toward another, I plead with you to ask the Lord for strength to forgive. This expression of desire will be of the very substance of your repentance. It may not be easy, and it may not come quickly. But if you [...]
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If there be any within the sound of my voice who have harbored grudges, who have let hatred develop in their hearts one toward another, I ask you to make the effort to turn around. Hatred always fails and bitterness always destroys, but “charity never faileth.” (1 Cor 13:8) (“‘Charity Never Faileth,’” Ensign, November 1981, [...]
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“How difficult it is for any of us to forgive those who have injured us. We are all prone ot brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue more in need of application in our time than the virtue of forgiving and forgetting? There [...]
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“As has been demonstrated for a hundred and fifty years, the truth of the book will not be determined by literary analysis or by scientific research, although these are reassuring and most welcome. The truth will be determined today and tomorrow, as it has been throughout the yesterdays, by the reading of it in a [...]
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“Today, a century and a half after its first publication, [the Book of Mormon] is more widely read than at any time in its history. . . Its appeal is as timeless as truth, as universal as mankind. It is the only book that contains within its covers a promise that by divine power the [...]
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“When doubts arise, when tragedies strike, the quiet voice of faith is heard in the stillness of the night as certain and reassuring as the polar star in the heavens above.” (Gordon B. Hinckley, Stand a Little Taller, Eagle Gate: 2001, p. 239)